During the entire way way back to West Wugan, Thomas felt a pair of eyes tightly glued on him and following his every movement. He ignored it at first, but as the minutes passed, it became annoying.
Thomas couldn't hold anymore and turned around. "Fine, is there anything you want to ask?"
"Er?! It's nothing..." Like a deer caught in headlights, Nana hurriedly looked away. Moments later, her left paw pulled his sleeves. "I was just curious to what you and the Sage talked about while I was unconscious."
"It was not that much, I only asked some questions about this place." Thomas scratched his chin as he gave a somewhat neutral response.
...
Forty minutes earlier.
The pill refinement had just completed and Thomas helped carry Nana back to the hut. As the little lioness slept soundly in the wooden bed, the Sage made a sign with his hand as both walked to the room with the table and teapot.
Thomas walked closer to the table and held the teapot very closely. By his side, the sage didn't nothing but observe him.
From it's aged external body it couldn't be a recent creation, and it's design it was almost identical to the ones you could find in anywhere selling ceramics back on earth. Sure enough, even if the time had done it some damage there was a serial number and place of origin.
Serial Number: D1S50**-77* Made in Ascein, 2026.
'Ascein, it's that one of the first cities founded by the Human Alliance?' After the first dimensional invasion in 2019, new materials such as Animanium and other of equal rarity were found when scientists from all around the global were deployed to the locations of the attack.
After one year of research, it was found out some of the materials held extraordinary abilities. Hollium-x88 was a small red mineral that when refined became a thin and very resistant material with the ability to store energy and then and release a concentrated beam multiple times without heating. Another great discovery was the Animanium that at that time it was seen only as a stone that could amplify one's physical ability which for human civilization at that time was equivalent to become a super human.
All the discoveries made back them were a huge breakthrough in several fields such as medicine, biology, chemistry and the military.
At that time the many countries were still slightly distant, and not united as the present day. The country leaders and their population only viewed for their own personal gains and how to stand above/be better than others as a person, group, country and etc.
Unsurprisingly, when such gains were right before their eyes the various world leaders couldn't help but start a war for the monopolization of such discovery to the point of forgetting even the recent devil invasion two years back.
Years after the end of the war, it was already 2025. With the cease fire, new rift started to open and invasions began to take place everywhere in the world, over a dozen countries fell on the first week and the entire world was put in a state of emergency. When over 30% of the human territory turned completely inhabitable and millions upon millions died against these creatures pulled out of a fantasy novel, a Mundial vote was held on August 23.
Ten days later, it was announced all borders would cease to exist and humanity would enter a new age, the era of the Human Alliance.
With this new order in place, all efforts were put in the threat of the mysterious dimensional rifts and to look for a way to deal with it.
Ascein was one of the first cities inaugurated after the creation of the Alliance. The prototype of a fully-automated city with high end technology build to detect any change in spatial vibrations and extra-dimensional signatures before the opening of a rift and then immediately send an alert to all civilians nearby.
Even now Ascein is one of the greatest centers of mass production in the entire planet.
The city is also responsible for the mass production of most aircrafts, starships, highly-secret adept weaponry and more.
On his left, the Sage was looked over Thomas' shoulder. His eyes fell upon the line of characters as his eyebrows raised. "I can't read it, what is it written?"
Thomas' eyes rose from the bottom of the teapot to state directed at the old man before him. Feeling the man was telling the truth, he replied to the best of his ability so the Sage could understand. "It says the date and where it was first made. As I expected, this teapot is from my... home."
Hearing his words, the old man was surprised. "A tea pot?! Is that what it is? And for you home no less! I suppose you are very far from home indeed..."
Thomas immediately felt this was the perfect opportunity to inquire more about what he wanted to know. "Yes, I feel here..."
Before he could finish.
"You were ejected by the pathway, this I already know. It's how both I and this little object you call teapot came to end here with me. Come and sit down with me, there is a lot for us to talk about your condition." The old Sage suddenly pulled out a pair of chairs and laid it down before sitting.
Thomas sat on the one opposite to the Sage, his eyes were sparking as he waited for the latter to continue.